a lot of people on this app feeling the need to let everyone know they don’t like stuff, but on here you determine your algorithm. if you don’t like something and you see it anyway that’s a skill issue and you’re wasting your own time telling on yourself

Atom smasher, University of Chicago, 1948. two colossal metal discs labeled tomorrow & today sandwiching a man standing between them

vibe

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" ~ Buckminster Fuller

the most integral part of my morning routine is lying supine on the floor for 20 mins, wondering what my life would be like if i had made better choices

That makes me so depressed.

I have a memory of plane that had the following priority:
- Man's voice - regular announcement.
- Woman's voice - things are bad, pay attention.
- Child's voice - if you get this wrong, you die.
Anybody know if this is true?
Eurofighter maybe.

Does anyone else sometimes get really livid they won’t get a go on a Concorde, like bring them back come on, just for a bit

I get a bit sad I can't have a trip on the big noisy hovercrafts that used to go across the Channel

Read a quote ages ago from a retired Lockheed SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ pilot who said they once got a request to let another aircraft pass them at circa 60,000 feet. It was a British Airways concorde.

“Hell, we’re up here in oxygen masks and these folks are passing us dining on lobster and champagne!”

stayed up way too late last night finishing this but I like how it turned out. ✌🏻

Curated image from u/AdingoD on Reddit, a closeup of Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien in TNG and DS9) mocked up to look like a minion from the movie "Minions", with a huge oval-shaped head and body with no neck, blue overalls, big goggles, small legs, long skinny arms, and black gloves and shoes, against a white background, with no text.

He was more than a hero...

Monday already

I got suspicious half way through as well.

And find them…

Glasses should come with a second pair so you can see well enough to clean the glasses you need to wear.

I am an unrepentant Muppet Treasure Island fan. That and Muppet Christmas Carol are the best muppet movies; we need them covering more classic literature.

If you want an interactive book, you do not need AI to make up slopped shite. Go look at the 90s, find a pick-your-own-adventure story and enjoy using your brain. It’s healthier.

formal request to all of the companies and establishments that are currently sending me bills: stop it

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

As it's the weekend, let's take a moment to enjoy and celebrate what for the entire country is an unalloyed good-news story!

Language Matters Why English is so hard to learn Marlene Davis YOU think English is easy? Check out the following. 1. The bandage was wound around the wound. 11. The insurance was invalid for the invalid in his hospital bed. 12. There was a row among the oarsmen about who would row. 13. They were too close to the door to close it. 14. The buck does funny things when the does (females) are present. 15. A seamstress and a sewer fell 2. The farm was cultivated to produce down into a sewer line. produce. 3. The dump was so full that the workers had to refuse more refuse. 4. We must polish the Polish furniture shown at the store. 5. He could lead if he would get the lead out. 6. The soldier decided to desert his tasty dessert in the desert. 7. Since there is no time like the pres- ent, he thought it was time to present the present to his girlfriend. 8.A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum. 9. When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes. 10. I did not object to the object which he showed me. 16. To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow. 17. The wind was too strong to wind the sail around the mast. 18. Upon seeing the tear in her painting she shed a tear. 19.I had to subject the subject to a series of tests. 20. How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend? Heteronyms These are brilliant. Homonyms or homographs are words of like spelling, but with more than one meaning and sound. When pronounced differently, they are known as heteronyms.

Marlene cooked with this one.

A comic from the New Yorker. On a skyscraper construction, steel beams are connecting in ways which defy logic. An angry-looking man (presumably a foreman or some such) is leaning over the edge and shouting "Escher! Get your ass up here"

Listening to In Our Time on #BBCRadio4 discussing Escher, and I'm reminded of this classic from the New Yorker

Where the fuck am I supposed to get my dopamine if this damn site isn’t working? My inner self? Fuck thaaat!

Comic. One... two... THREE! [text in red] X Deprecated [line break] One... two... three... GO! [text in red] Deprecated [red curly bracket around top two lines] Too easy to mix up [line break] Three... two... one... GO! [text in green] [check mark] ISO Standard [caption] If I were in charge of ISO, the first thing I’d do would be to standardize the way people count out loud before doing something in sync.

Countdown Standard

xkcd.com/3232/

Was there not a Star Trek Next Generation episode that covered this as well?
Also quite racist to the Irish as well, just so you know.

Pontiffsplaining.

just the sweetest little pangolin you ever saw

fun fact: no pangolin has ever done a single thing wrong in the entire history of the world

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

Popesplaining?

#3 Do I get to be independently wealthy as well?

There is a standard answer to this old idiocy of if-you-know-so-much-about-the-art-of-film-why-don't-you-make-movies. You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good. (1963)